The Salt Path Scandal (2025)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Josephine Besbrode
Actors: Chloe Hadjimatheou, Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs, Moth Winn, Raynor Winn
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today (1948)
How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the international prosecutors participating in the first Nuremberg trial —formally, the…
The Super 8 Years (2022)
“In re-viewing our Super 8 films, shot between 1972 and 1981, it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a testimony to the pastimes, lifestyle…
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)
A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital revolution.
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (2024)
A multigenerational story celebrating director Sean Wang’s two grandmothers, one on his father’s side and the other on his mother’s side.
Ariel Phenomenon (2022)
Ariel Phenomenon explores an African extraterrestrial encounter witnessed by over sixty schoolchildren in 1994. As a Harvard professor, a BBC war reporter, and past students investigate, they struggle to answer…
Leaving Africa (2015)
Riitta and Catherine live together in Uganda. By day the two sixtysomethings provide sexual health and equality education for Catholics, Muslims and Anglicans alike. By night they smoke, do crosswords…
Cromwell’s Head (2017)
The story of Oliver Cromwell’s head is perhaps the most bizarre, yet least well known, of all tales from English history. From regal burial to exhumation and decapitation, this relic…
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)
The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her…
Flashy Funerals (2016)
For most of us a funeral is traditionally a modest, somber affair, but there are some families who are prepared to go above and beyond to ensure their loved ones…
The Mole Agent (2020)
When a daughter becomes concerned about her mother’s well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a new resident—and a mole inside the…
Ayahuasca Expansão da Consciência (2018)
The story of Ayahuasca, from its emergence in the Amazonian Forest, to its popularity with the Santo Daime religion, and on to its arrival in urban centres. Combining scientific, religious…
Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed (2005)
After inhabiting dozens of comical alter-egos over the course of her award-winning career, Tracey Ullman finally “takes on” the one role that spawned all of her characters — herself.